Organ Reveries By Virgil Fox

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Organ Reveries By Virgil Fox
Publication date 1951
1. Waltz In A-flat Major, Op 39, No. 15 (00:00)
2. Prayer From "Hansel And Gretel” (01:37)
3. Minuet (From Quintet In E Major, Op. 13, No. 5) (04:52)
4. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 49, No. 4 (08:11)
5. Heart At Thy Sweet Voice (From “Samson And Delilah," Op. 47) (11:05)
6. Cradle Song, Op. 49, No. 4 (17:13)
7. Roulade, Op. 9, No 3 (19:52)
8. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Canata 147) (23:36)
9. Calm As The Night, Op. 326, No. 27 (26:54)
10. Kamenoi-Ostrow, Op. 10 (30:08)
11. War March Of The Priests (From The Incidental Music For "Athalie," Op. 74) (36:19)
Virgil Fox, organist of the famed River¬ side Church in New York City and one of the outstanding virtuosos of his genera¬ tion, presents here a program of beloved works drawn from many fields of music. Here are Brahms’ gracious Waltz in A-flat Major and his gentle Cradle Song; the delicate and charming Minuet by Bocche¬ rini; Rubinstein’s colorful Kamenoi- Ostrow; the nostalgic and lovely Songs My Mother Tau0it Me by Dvorak; the romantic My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice from Saint-Saens’ opera, Samson and Delilah; Bach’s radiant Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; and other attractive favorites.
Virgil Fox began his musical studies m Princeton, Illinois. He was fourteen years old when he gave his first public recital in Cincinnati before an audience of three thousand students. He entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and during the season he spent there per formed the phenomenal feat of giving five complete recitals, each one a different pro¬ gram played from memory. When he was twenty-six years old, Mr. Fox was ap¬ pointed head of the organ department of this same conservatory.
He visited Europe in 1938 and gave there ten concerts in a month’s time, play¬ ing in such renowned churches as Durham and Lincoln Cathedrals, and the great St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig, forever associ¬ ated with Bach. Mr. Fox returned to Europe during the Summer of 1950 and gave triumphant concerts in Paris, Canter¬ bury, Edinburgh and London, among other places.
Virgil Fox served in the U.S. Army, alternating between the Chaplain’s Corps and Special Services, from 1942 to 1946. In the first eleven months alone of his service he made five hundred and forty three appearances for the war effort. He concluded his service in the Army with a year’s intense work in musical therapy for the patients of the Walter Reed Hospital.
The week that Mr. Fox was honorably discharged from the Army he began a series of three concerts at the Library of Congress imder the auspices of the Eliza¬ beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation.
In addition to serving as organist of the Riverside Church in New York City, a post he has held since 1946, Mr. Fox gives many concerts all over the country, aver¬ aging more than eighty a year.
Critics are unanimous in their praise of this remarkable artist “Phenomenal tech¬ nique,” “electrifying virtuosity,” “one of the most imaginative of organists” are but a few of the glowing tributes accorded this musician.
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